If They Had An Internet War And You Didn’t See It, Is That Still An Unappealing Comparison?

Yes, yes it is.

I'm sure you can use your twitter-searching skills and find some remnant of what I was told was the latest round of that long-running battle between comics writers and comics artists. I missed it completely. I'm told this skirmish was built around the notion of the labor involved with each task as a way of getting at which one is harder to do and thus more valuable to the end result. I think both can be really hard to do but art is by far the more specialized skill and by far the more labor-intensive task when putting together comics. I once asked a prominent cartoonist how my friend Dan Wright and I should break down our pay on our newspaper comic strip on those days it was me writing and Dan drawing, and the cartoonist said, "Your friend should get 100 percent."

I can't answer the philosophical element of how this transfers to which actor has greater value to a project. I do think if you have a pay system that takes into account the amount of labor involved one relative to another, obviously the artist should be credited/rewarded more heavily that way. Most rates aren't solely focused on that part of it, though. It's something to keep in mind for sure. Like I know some partners where the tasks involved with marketing go to the one perceived to have fewer hours invested in the project as an effort of labor, or do ownership-reward and worker-reward differently. Make sure it's locked down.
 
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